Long before Google, companies judged productivity with video surveillance and counting keystrokes in their call centers.
"I had to remind the committee that they needed to judge her productivity on the basis of her time on the clock,"says Singer, adding that the woman was awarded tenure.
Formerly, researchers were judged on productivity alone, he believes--which although a good measure of scientific success, "doesn't necessarily mean students get proper mentoring," he says.
Every political, economic, legal and educational institution must be rebuilt with a New Bottom Line that judges efficiency, productivity and rationality based on how much they help develop in us our capacities to be loving and caring, kind and generous, ethically and ecologically sensitive, and responding with awe, wonder and radical amazement at the grandeur and mystery of the universe.
One study also considered the societal perspective; however, credible data for judging lifetime productivity gains and losses is often unavailable especially in developing countries.
In his three years as the general manager, he has learned to judge players by productivity.
"It's a mistake to judge someone's productivity hour by hour — the metric needs to be sustainable output over at least a week," said Mr. Hogben.
Another reason for why large employers pay more to workers of the same quality is that they are less able to judge accurately the productivity of their employees (so-called "monitoring costs").
The index measures the level of education and quality of health that a child born today can expect by the age of 18, as a way of judging its future productivity.
To judge parameter state productivities, we consider the population's fitness improvement, as well as exploration/exploitation balance management.
